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The head of the island's emergency management agency admits the government did not take hurricane preparation seriously before Hurricane Maria, but he says all that has changed.

In 2004, Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army fought ferociously against the U.S. in Iraq. Hundreds of U.S. soldiers lost their lives and many more were wounded. Now the Shiite cleric turned politician is celebrating his first election victory. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Eric Bourquin and Peter Salerno, who both served in Iraq and fought Sadr, about their view on his win.

The Trump administration is pulling out an old regulation that it believes will be able to meet a conservative goal: cutting a key program's funding for Planned Parenthood. The strategy might work.

The law allows for a fine of up to $50,000, two years of jail time, or both, to be imposed on any person who intentionally publishes false information.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Stephens about her reaction to the $500 million settlement between Michigan State University and the hundreds of victims of disgraced doctor Larry Nassar.

"The incarceration rate in this country is just insane," said Johnnie Moore, an evangelical leader and informal adviser to President Trump.

A newspaper in Norway says it got a hold of internal data from the streaming service, which showed that 90 percent of users had unknowingly been playing songs from Lemonade and The Life of Pablo.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with political commentators Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post and Erick Erickson, who runs blog The Resurgen and hosts "The Erick Erickson Show" on WSBRadio about President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump's foreign policy in North Korea and Iran and the confirmation battle over Trump's nominee to run the CIA, Gina Haspel.

The list of potential nominees to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is growing, though none of them appear to be an easy confirmation.

Applications to attend a memorial service for the famous scientist are open to the public. Anyone born between 1918 and 2038 can apply.